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Steve Jobs Envisioned the iPad in 1983
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Or we could give credit to Inspector Gadget for Penny's computer book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Gadget
Steve Jobs wasn't a visionary, he was a shrewd businessman who also got extremely lucky. Keep in mind we're talking about a guy who though he could cure his own cancer with his mind and a raw diet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Gadget
Steve Jobs wasn't a visionary, he was a shrewd businessman who also got extremely lucky. Keep in mind we're talking about a guy who though he could cure his own cancer with his mind and a raw diet.
Isnt that being a visionary?
Like an architect needs a structural engineer or a composer who cannot play and need musicians, still the composer can envision the sounds.
What a sound was that?
: Oh, oh!
Or we could give credit to Inspector Gadget for Penny's computer book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Gadget
Steve Jobs wasn't a visionary, he was a shrewd businessman who also got extremely lucky. Keep in mind we're talking about a guy who though he could cure his own cancer with his mind and a raw diet.
Read the biography. He wasn't a good businessman. He actually worked a lot on his products.
Sure we do, just like we had tablets many decades ago. To speak Apple, im talking of the ipad of these things. As for the atom reassembler, it would essentially take any element and turn into another. Paired with the 3d-printer (thats how i started thinking about it) you could construct anything out of air (truth be told, i didnt go that far though; then again, my understanding of elements and their composition werent that strong at the age of 5
). Its a fascinating time we are living in though. Hopefully, it wont be long until we can print life itself*.
* actually, we already can in a sense. but once again, i am talking about these technologies being mature; i.e., becoming "ipads".
The interesting thing about this audio recording from 1983 is just how much of a presage it represents.
If Steve was already discussing what we now know as industrial designed computers and programs, street view interactive maps, app store, iTunes store, Powerbook, radio modems, and several others, one wonders what other presages Steve came up with from 1983 to 2011 and which is sitting in a file somewhere inside Apple or inside a private storage medium owned by his wife Laurene.
It is instructive to note these impressively internal disclosures were made to an industrial design conference. That was the point of technology he defined and determined as the area of greatest need. That profession was singled out.
I think the road map for the next decade or two at Apple is quite secure indeed.
Also it becomes clear new styles of uses for compute devices are not limited by imagination, but by the technical capacity of the hardware to keep up with the vision of the designer. I cite Newton. All its intended uses were absolutely crippled by underpowered hardware and oversized power requirements.
It all takes decades longer than imagined or hoped because technology is so slow to develop and commercialize and so many wrong paths are taken.
Rocketman
If Steve was already discussing what we now know as industrial designed computers and programs, street view interactive maps, app store, iTunes store, Powerbook, radio modems, and several others, one wonders what other presages Steve came up with from 1983 to 2011 and which is sitting in a file somewhere inside Apple or inside a private storage medium owned by his wife Laurene.
It is instructive to note these impressively internal disclosures were made to an industrial design conference. That was the point of technology he defined and determined as the area of greatest need. That profession was singled out.
I think the road map for the next decade or two at Apple is quite secure indeed.
Also it becomes clear new styles of uses for compute devices are not limited by imagination, but by the technical capacity of the hardware to keep up with the vision of the designer. I cite Newton. All its intended uses were absolutely crippled by underpowered hardware and oversized power requirements.
It all takes decades longer than imagined or hoped because technology is so slow to develop and commercialize and so many wrong paths are taken.
Rocketman
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Small ones too. Still, the technology has quite a distance to go before being fully mature.
Wasn't he talking about iBook? He said "computer in a book" not "computer in a slab/tab/pad".
Indeed, the iPad is not it, for sure.
Perhaps it is a step in that direction.
So he did not fully materialize his dream, he just placed the building blocks.
He made it, he invent it.
By your logic, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin are NOT geniuses because they both took ideas of others and made them available to the public like Jobs did with the Macintosh, the iPhone and the iPad.
As was said by previous posts - since we're just a few days from the one year anniversary of the turtlenecked one's passing - anything with "Steve Jobs" in the title is prime click-bait.
I think the Star Trek episode with the tablet came after 1983. It was Next Generation, not the original.
EDIT: Way after. Star Trek TNG started in 1987.
Troll detected. Wait, I think this is the same guy who was spamming flame comments on an iPhone article.
Actually, the fact that the tech didn't exist to support his vision yet is one of the contributing factors that led to his ouster. Ironic, but true. And when he returned he had mellowed and matured enough to foster that tech rather than tilt against windmills.
Funny I didn't think the title read:
"Steve Jobs Envisioned the tablet before anyone else in the World"
I guess we all can't be as literate as you.
I'm pretty sure he's just pointing out that there's nothing special about Steve Jobs envisioning a tablet. This is just here because it's Steve Jobs, and it's not even news! This was known for a long time.
Around the 20th minute Steve Jobs wonders, talking about reading an Aristotle book, if we could ask 'What would Aristotle have said for a particular problem'. He was referring to what a computer program is at the most fundamental level, that it captures the underlying principles that host many thousand experiences.
Now everyone asks 'What would Steve Jobs have done?' for every little thing. I think he has institutionalized his thinking in Apple using many means and I think there is at least a chance that the senior management in Apple can get an approximate answer to that question. That is the legacy that hopefully Steve jobs had left behind.
Now everyone asks 'What would Steve Jobs have done?' for every little thing. I think he has institutionalized his thinking in Apple using many means and I think there is at least a chance that the senior management in Apple can get an approximate answer to that question. That is the legacy that hopefully Steve jobs had left behind.